WRITERS ARE CONSTRUCTIVE FORCES

A typical sala  of an Ilokano home

     Truth-telling and doing what is right should be the hallmarks of writers. If you are a writer as the blogger has been saying again and again, you have created for yourself a pulpit that requires you to look for and speak and write the truth. 
     A writer has a vision of what society should be: a community of equals who give due respect to the other person whatever his station in life may be. As a writer, you are supposed to know more things--social,political, cultural, economics-- about what is going on in the society than anybody else. You know the ways of men, their foibles, their secrets. You may write about them, but on a case to case basis.
     As a lawmaker in the context of his vision of society, he is a model of what is good and what is not ugly. If this is not so, what is his or her credibility as a writer? 
          
     What is honesty and integrity that should govern the behavior of the writer?   

CONTEMPLATING LEGAL ACTION

The great eternal truths and principles of your mind antedate all religions or philosophy.--Joseph Murray

The Provincial Capitol in Laoag City, Philippines

     
     Some people see logs in the eyes of other persons but don't see the stinking shits in their own backyard.

THE PEACE WITH THE ALMIGHTY GOD

     The blogger has made peace with his Almighty God. No outside negative stimuli can move or agitate him. The eternal God will deal with those who swallow hook, line and sinker the latest transgression against the blogger and, therefore, against the God who created him.

   This is written in the ancient oracle:       
   Yes, His wrath is upon the liar; the Jehovah Christ has put a curse on him and his anger shall be upon him until his dying day. The justice of God will run its course; it may be slow but it will come and blow him away and he will never know why.  

THE PRINCE OF PIGDOM

PRINCIPE ITI PAGARIAN DAGITI BABOY

Year in and year out
He signed the completion reports
Of ghost projects funded by his pork 
And he would get his kickbacks
In trolley cars delivered to his door.
Mr.S is worth P186-million,counting more.
How his wealth ballooned never will 
We know while the people in poverty wallow--
It is their money but how would they know? 
Why would he tell them?
Their votes and souls have been bought.
They will stay as slaves and garbage pickers.
And Mr.S laughs and laughs
And his buttocks, fattened by stolen
Doughnut,quiver and blush,quiver and blush
And may they remain so
Year in and year out.

LETTING IT GO

     Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing.--Ernest Hemingway, 1954 Nobel Prize winner   
     

        You can not change the past. You can not change the facts.

         We gave literary books and magazines to writers during occasions and other literary activities like the event at the Mariano Marcos State University in the so-called Sunshine City last May. We gave out no more than 30 Ilokano books for teachers that may help them in the Mother Language-Based Multi-Lingual Education. We gave a "rare" literary book to the youngest participant (student of Data Center College Laoag, Philippines, a wisp of a girl who wants to write in the language) and a "rare" copy of The New Yorker to the oldest (male) would-be-Ilokano writer.
     
    This is for the record and no other motivation.This is also for the record of the Almighty God who sees everything and knows the heart of men.

Leisurely walking in LA with my wife and cousin Simonie (partly hidden).

    Yet this is our advice to the young writers or those who hope to be responsible mannurat: if you are a writer, you have created for yourself a pulpit that requires you to look for the truth, and once you have it, write it, speak it. In this case, be fair with yourselves and give the blogger a fair chance by asking him his side of the controversy. Check your facts. Balance your piece.
    The Lord of Hosts is watching.
     

LETTING THINGS GO

    People make conclusions and comments without checking their facts.
     We are what we think, we are what we say, we are what we do, even in secret.  

SINKING IN THE QUAGMIRE

     Philippine Sen. Franklin Drilon, one of the lead prosecutors of the successful Chief Justice Renato Corona Impeachment Trial, has earlier denied he knew Janet Napoles, the alleged brains of the P10-billion scam. Now, photos of him with Ms. Napoles have circulated in the cyber world. He was smiling and the blogger could almost see his porky eyes. 

     In a press conference, Sen. Drilon tried to explain his presence in a party hosted by Napoles.

     The blogger, if he were his adviser, would have immediately told the senator: Please, please shut up! Your slip is showing. 

     The more he talks the more the senator sinks in the slimy quagmire of his own making.

                        Descending to the Level of Little Minds

   

     The blogger as journalist can use the tools of his trade to ask damaging questions that would put the adversary in his place. But we  have decided to stick to the real issues of the controversy. 

SHOULD NOT THE WRITER TELL THE TRUTH?

"There will always be conflict in human affairs because of the simple fact that I'm hungry and you're thirsty. I want to sleep when you want to get up, I want to go let when you want to go right. The issue isn't conflict itself, but how to deal with it." --Riane Eister 

     A writer worth his salt is one who has a cause and a purpose--to look for and speak the truth. How do you deal with a writer who has been caught lying so many times the blogger lost count in his lying business?

     Why the deliberate telling of false statements and conclusions? In the blogger's case, was it to impugn our integrity as writer The blogger is exasperated, yet he tries to understand the little minds.

    But is not getting angry at their actuation a sign of weakness? Must the blogger descend to their level and be like foul-mouthed fishwives?

LETTING THINGS GO

     We have deleted the entry here and gave all the facts to the Almighty God.
                                       

LETTING THINGs GO

 
We have deleted the entry in this page to create space in the future for a poem or a short story. Except what is left below, the facts in the deleted write up have been submitted to the God Almighty to judge what we have done in His name. 

     Let us be careful with our language, especially when it pertains to corruption and moral and immoral acts. Remember, the blogger is a journalist and we ask questions.     
     The blogger crossed to his Elba and has been moving on.